Samstag, 17. März 2007

Kurzfilme

one-way day (a 36 hour film)


No matter how bad your day is - there is always something much worse happening to somebody else at the same time.

The alarm clock rings, but an hour too late. It's the start of a new day that will bring one disaster after another to our protagonist. As another car driver is almost causing a rear-end collision, she almost ends up in a one-way street. Only seconds later she hears squealing tires and realises that the driver that almost crashed into her car has caused a severe accident ...

"Was it coincidence or a one-way street?" That was the given theme at the Instant36 film competition 2008, in which a film had to be created from scratch within only 36 hours.

www.instant36.at

Team:
Katharina Dietl (director, writer),
Nino Leitner (director, writer, dop, editor),
Dorothea Koniszewski (female lead)



Auszeit (a 36 hour film)
WINNER Shorts On Screen 07 for Tirol !!! (short film contest by Austrian public television ORF)

This film was planned, shot and edited in only 36 hours for the Austrian 36 hours short film competition "Instant36" in 2006. Everything in this film was created in this time, even the music and sound - we were 16 people, 4 were exclusively working on sound and music.

Such competitions are always great fun, take the chance to take part in one if you get the chance to. I can only say that I enjoyed it very much and that we produced something much better than I originally expected we would be able to produce. I directed the film and knew nobody out of the whole crew except for one person before we started out, but it really paid off. See for yourself!



Künstler-Lektion


The proverb 'to shed light on something' gets a completely new meaning when Nino Leitner tries to teach himself and other artists for their future a short, but very important lesson made up entirely of light bulbs. Accompanied by music by Andreas Karre.

For the creation of this film, every letter of the alphabet was made up of light bulbs and filmed individually while the bulbs were switched on and off several times. Everything else has been done in post-production on the computer.

The phrases were taken from the German version of Keith Johnstone's book 'Impro; Improvisation and the Theatre'.

This is the text in English:

Artist Lesson

Lesson 1: We have an idea that art is self-expression - which historically is weird.

Lesson 2: An artist who is inspired works without hesitation.

Lesson 3: It's easy to play the role of 'artist', but actually to create something means going against one's education.

End.



Mind the Bag


A mysterious, world-travelling courier picks up a bag in London to bring it to his customer in Salzburg. He does not yet have a clue which kind of surprise he holds for him at his destination ...

Dialogue at the end in English:

Mysterious Man: "Did everything go alright at the airport?"
Bag courier: "Of course, just as usual."

[Mysterious Man opens bag]

Mysterious Man: "Are you sure nobody followed you?"
Bag courier: "Yes of course I am."

[Mysterious Man tastes drugs]

Mysterious Man: "Very good."



Constricted Sight


The topic of this short film, which was concepted and finalized in only two days, is our everyday “constricted sight“: We almost exclusively watch at screens nowadays, probably until our world becomes entirely rectangular.


PANTA


The first short created during Nino’s time at the University of Applied Sciences and Technology. It circles around the story of superstar Lena, who is fed up with her busy and public media life. When she wakes up one morning, the world is empty – not a single human soul seems to be left on earth, except for her. This is when she realizes for the first time how lucky she was in her former life ...


Wo, du fröhliche Weihnachtszeit?


Nino Leitner’s very first short film. It deals with today’s Christmas in a very ironic way. Created with iMovie 1.0 for a Christmas movie competition by Apple, the film was even honoured by being broadcast several times by the private channel “Tango TV“ in Luxemburg.

Nino Leitners allererster Kurzfilm. Er beleuchtet auf sehr ironische Art und Weise das Weihnachtsfest von heute. Mit iMovie 1.0 ursprünglich für einen von Apple ausgerufenen Weihnachtsfilm-Wettbewerb kreiert, wurde dem Filmchen sogar die Ehre zuteil, im luxemburgischen Privat-Sender „Tango TV“ mehrmals gespielt zu werden.

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